Norfolk: Runhall

William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

RUNHALL parish, near the chief source of the river Yare, 12 miles W. of Norwich, and 4½ miles N.E. of Hingham, has 248 souls, and 761A. of land, mostly belonging to Lord Wodehouse, the lord of the manor, impropriator, and patron of the vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £6. 18s., and augmented from 1742 to 1824, with £1200 of Queen Anne's Bounty, though valued in 1831 at only £60 per annum. The Hon. and Rev. Wm. Wodehouse is the incumbent.

The Church (All Saints,) has a round tower, and formerly had a chancel, of which some fragments are still extant.

The poor have 10s. a year, left by a Mr. Lindsey, out of Mr. Thurling's estate.

DIRECTORY:

         Bowles    Geo.           shopkeeper
         Hardy     Chas.          blacksmith
         Murrell   Chas.          shopkeeper
         Smith     Jeremiah       miller, baker, and carpenter
         Thurling  Mr. Robert
 
            farmers
 
         Atkins    Henry
         Breese    Wm.
         Coleman   John
         Durrant   Isaiah
         Thurling  Peter,
                     sen. and jun.
 

See also the Runhall parish page.

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